MTS San Diego Section Hosts 2016 Holiday Dinner

The San Diego Section of MTS hosted their 2016 Holiday Dinner on December 8th at the Bali Hai Restaurant overlooking the San Diego Bay. Individual and Corporate members joined for the evening to recognize the participants in this year’s High School Internship program. The students had the opportunity to intern at sponsor companies and institutions last summer.

Below is the list of interns, who shared from the podium their experience working with the diverse disciplines that the MTS corporate members represent:MTS- San Diego Summer Interns 2016 with Larry Nordell, Internship Program Coordinator

Intern

High School

Company/Institution

Lili Chen

Mt. Carmel

Scripps Institution of Oceanography

Neshao Cubahilo

Scripps Ranch

SonTek

Hannah Hu

La Jolla

NOAA – Regional Fisheries Lab

Onrei Ladao

Mount Miguel

Fugro

Charlie Lewis

Sage Creek

Kenautics

Andrew Moura

St. Augustine

Scripps Institution of Oceanography

Guadalupe Refugio

Preuss

Tecnadyne

Josh Steiner-F

Canyon Crest

Kenautics

Nick Vecchioni

St. Augustine

Teledyne RDI

Franklin Ye

La Jolla

Sidus Solutions

Caroline Zhang

Torrey Pines

Teledyne SeaBotix

The occasion also served to award Mihika Nadig, winner of the second place in the Senior category during her participation on the 2016 Greater San Diego Science and Engineering Fair. Mihika could not receive the recognition last summer for her work on “Convolutional Neural Networks Applied to Video Clips”, but MTS and the Science Fair organizers ensured she would get the proper distinction before long.

The Internship Program also recognized Teledyne Seabotix for their 15th year sponsorship in the program. Pictured below shows Larry Nordell, handing the recognition to Grace DeForest on behalf of Teledyne Seabotix.

The evening included a raffle with lots of fantastic prizes; all proceedings will help to fund internship positions for high school students in 2017. Click here for more information.